Spectre-style speculative-execution attack

{
  "id": "local-technique:spectre",
  "title": "Spectre-style speculative-execution attack",
  "type": "Historical concept",
  "snapshot": "historical-seed.json",
  "source_url": "https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf",
  "description": "Speculative execution may expose otherwise inaccessible information through observable microarchitectural state.",
  "defensive_context": "Variant-specific compiler, operating-system, firmware and hardware guidance.",
  "publication": {
    "id": "local-publication:spectre-milestone",
    "entity_type": "Publication",
    "title": "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution",
    "source_url": "https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf",
    "publication_date": "2018",
    "publisher": "Authors research site; later IEEE proceedings",
    "credit_display": "Paul Kocher and collaborating researchers",
    "credit_role": "version-specific research authors"
  },
  "mappings": [
    {
      "target_id": "CWE-1423",
      "relation": "relevant predictor-state weakness, not all transient execution",
      "status": "research-supplied conceptual mapping; target exists in imported taxonomy; semantic review pending"
    }
  ],
  "uncertainty": "2018disclosure differs from2019proceedings. Original preprint and later paper author lists differ; no sole inventor or Spectre/Meltdown synonym asserted.",
  "rights": "Original concise metadata and linked references; no full paper or payload imported",
  "review_status": "Editorial historical seed; conceptual mappings remain explicitly provisional"
}